Azir vs Kennen
How to Beat Kennen as Azir
based on 270 Azir vs Kennen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Kennen Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kennen as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Kennen
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
Advice to Win Against Kennen
Consider playing a bit more cautiously around Kennen when you have a Mark of the Storm debuff. If he hits you with 3 Marks of the Storm, you will get stunned.
Kennen is flimsy by nature - turn and attack him if he gets careless with Lightning Rush.
Azir vs Kennen Counter Stats
How to Counter Kennen with Azir in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some critical Azir versus Kennen counter stats that may help you understand the differences between these two champs. As an example, Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kennen’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Kennen..
Azir normally has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Kennen. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Azir and Kennen
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Who is Better, Azir or Kennen?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Azir usually wins when facing off against Kennen, with a 53.3% win rate. As a result, Azir makes a great counter for Kennen.
While Azir does have a higher win rate than Kennen, when facing one another, Azir also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Azir into Kennenas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Azir has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kennen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Azir vs Kennen matchups, Azir is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Azir is a great counter to Kennen. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Azir against Kennen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Azir in order to counter Kennen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Kennen. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Azir versus Kennen build include Crown of the Shattered Queen, Nashor's Tooth, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Azir incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better countering Kennen than with many other common item sets. In fact, Azir boasted an average win rate of 53.3% battling Kennen with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Kennen as Azir, you should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Azir vs Kennen counters, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.3% win rate overall.
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